Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

13.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.